But this number of deaths from covid won’t last, immunity from vaccines and past infections will get in equilibrium with some immune escape from perpetual new variants and declining immunity over time, just like it happens for flu strains. The finite number of very vulnerable old people will all die out, and over time the only people who will die of covid are the people who age into vulnerability, just like it happens with the flu.
But this number of deaths from covid won’t last, immunity from vaccines and past infections will get in equilibrium with some immune escape from perpetual new variants and declining immunity over time, just like it happens for flu strains. The finite number of very vulnerable old people will all die out, and over time the only people who will die of covid are the people who age into vulnerability, just like it happens with the flu.